Four BPN Officials Arrested, DPR Commission II: So The Drum Of War Kills The Land Mafia

Guspardi Gaus/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - The police have arrested four officials from the National Land Agency (BPN) in connection with an alleged land mafia syndicate. The four BPN ASNs have offices in the Jakarta and Bekasi areas, two of which are PS and MB. Responding to this, Member of Commission II of the Indonesian House of Representatives from the PAN faction, Guspardi Gaus, supports the police's move to expose the perpetrators of the land mafia, which involved 'insiders' in the National Land Agency. National Land Agency (BPN).

According to him, it takes decisive and bolder steps in crushing the land mafia and overcoming land issues.

"The arrests of 4 BPN officials in Jakarta and Bekasi can be used as drums for the war against the Land Mafia," Guspardi told reporters on Monday, July 18. collect fees from the public. These officials are suspected of collaborating with land mafias by abusing their authority to issue certain land certificates using inappropriate and allegedly fake documents or documents.

That way the certificate that should be the right of the PTSL program applicant can change ownership to become the property of the funder to the BPN official.

"The other method is community certificates which should have been completed but were detained by BPN officials and the data was changed. The identity was changed, the juridical data belonged to someone else. This mode is even suspected to have caused many victims. This is a deprivation of rights and really outrageous," said the Sumatran legislator. West it.

The PAN politician said that the Ministry of ATR/BPN which is a partner of Commission II of the DPR RI is indeed actively implementing the Complete Systematic Land Registration (PTSL) program. Guspardi also appealed to the community to take care of the registration of land certificates themselves and not to use middlemen and no need to bribe.

"People who take care of land certificates through PTSL do not need to spend money starting from socialization, measurement, to the issuance of land certificates that have been borne by the state budget or free," he said. here. The moment of the arrest of these four BPN officials, he said, must be a whip and a commitment by law enforcement officers to beat the 'drums of war' to the land mafia as a priority.

"Anyone involved and backing behind must be crushed and brought to court to provide a deterrent effect," he concluded.

Meanwhile, Spokesperson for the Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) Teguh Hari Prihatono explained that the arrest could be a shock therapy or shock therapy for other ranks of the Ministry of ATR/BPN.

"Hopefully in the future, what has happened recently, hopefully this can be a shock therapy for others," said Teguh in a press statement via video received on Thursday, July 14. Teguh assessed that there was a message to be conveyed through the arrest of the four officials. The message is that other ranks of the Ministry of ATR/BPN do not do the same thing as those carried out by the four officials. deviated from the existing provisions and did not carry out the minister's orders," he said.